Humanist Ecology

I jumped ahead to a close relative of atheism, humanism, for this weeks blog entry. I didn't find enough on atheist ecology so I did research on humanist ecology. See my segway blog entry on the difference between atheism and humanism.

"Life on Earth is both beautiful and valuable, and we should do more to preserve habitats, species and ways of life that are being destroyed by the over exploitation of natural resources and wilderness areas." - from A humanist discussion of... ENIVRONMENTAL ISSUES, 2006 (www.humanism.org.uk)

From a science perspective, humanitsts say one reason to protect the environment is because so many medicines come from plants. The British Humanist Association Web site has an article stating there are many more medicines yet to be found from natural resources.
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The same article on this Web site says that humanists use reason to make decisions on moral issues, such as how to protect the evnvironment, instead of "dogmatic rules."
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